Oakland could soon become home to the first Black-owned NFL team, a three-alarm fire at a SoMa woodworking shop early Saturday morning caused no injuries, and the sky above SF this morning is looking a tad normal — but the air quality remains at "unhealthy" levels.
Manny's in the Mission District was vandalized last night, covidiots are going after SF eateries that uphold face-covering policies on Yelp, and a wayward driver crashed into Fitness SF and Weaver's Coffee & Tea in The Castro early Friday morning.
Driven by sudden jumps in death counts in Alameda and Santa Clara counties, the Bay Area's pandemic death toll just took a depressingly big leap on Friday, with 42 new fatalities.
The leader of the Sonoma chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was ordered released from jail on $1 million bail this week by a federal judge overseeing a RICO prosecution involving multiple club members. The decision is being appealed.
Without any wind, firefighters can tame some of the fires burning up and down the West Coast. But without wind, the smoke from those fires just sits over entire regions making the outdoors dangerous, and the built-up smoke blocking the sun's warmth is itself perpetuating the cycle.
State Senator Scott Wiener’s bill, SB 145, seeks to treat straight and LGBTQ people the same under sex offender registry laws. The response has been death threats and doxxing from the right wing.
BART is seeking proposals for the creative reuse of old BART train cars as they continue to be taken out of service. The agency suggests that organizations or entrepreneurs may want the old cars to turn them into exhibits, art cars, sculptures, restaurant spaces, and more.
Approximately half the residents of Oregon's Clackamas County — the edge of which abuts the southern city limits of Portland — have been ordered to evacuate their homes as one of five wildfires currently burning in the state is threatening several towns and suburbs.
Whatever you call them — bars, taverns, pubs, lounges, saloons, or night clubs — establishments focused primarily on drinking have been identified by public health experts as some of the most dangerous venues during this pandemic, and this isn't likely to change.
As forecast yesterday by those in the know, the smoke situation that has dimmed and discolored the sky over the Bay Area isn't going to magically clear on Friday. There isn't enough wind to push the smoke in any direction except swirling over us, according to the latest model.
The SF Fire Department held a pared-down version of their annual 9/11 commemoration ceremony, BART is increasing train frequency starting Monday, and Bay Area brides are finding wedding venues won't give their money back for canceled ceremonies.
Elizabeth Holmes may try to convince the court she has a "mental disease," one of the Oregon wildfires may have been arson, and say goodbye to Pablo Sandoval.
After over a month of heavy lobbying by small fitness studio and gym owners, San Francisco is moving ahead to reopen gyms for indoor workouts starting Monday — along with hair and nail salons and Airbnbs.
2020 is set to add more record-huge blazes to that list before the year is out, and the August Complex fires burning in Mendocino National Forest have now surpassed both the LNU and SCU complexes in size to become the second-largest wildfire in state history.
Nearly 70 restaurants have permanently closed in San Francisco, by our count, since March. And this doesn't count the small ones that may have shuttered without fanfare or blog notices. Here's the list.
Wednesday’s ominous dark orange skies came literally on the 10-year anniversary of the San Bruno explosion, a sort of horrible reminder of PG&E’s staying power.
It's officially going to be a La Niña fall and winter, which could be disastrous for Southern California in terms of extending the dry season in an already extra fire-prone year. But it's anyone's guess whether it will noticeably affect our weather in the Bay Area or not.
A Vallejo Police officer is on paid administrative leave after killing two people in less than a year, as police misconduct settlements are piling up in Vallejo.
Erica Kious, the Fresno-based hairstylist and salon owner who quickly became persona non grata to liberals and a hero to Fox News watchers when she leaked video of Nancy Pelosi coming to her SF salon for a blowout last week, has returned to Fox News to announce she's now "afraid to return" to SF.
We know what being on the ground looked like. But what did it actually look like as you flew up above the clouds and the smoke?
The fire that's been being referred to as the Bear Fire received a new official name from Cal Fire Thursday morning: North Complex West Zone.
Things weren't quite as orange on Thursday morning as they were a day earlier, though the sky may look like that again before all this is through. And unlike yesterday when ground-level air quality was fairly okay, today's not a day to be walking outside or exercising.
This year's fires are prompting rethinking in fire management policy, the state Supreme Court has allowed SF's Prop C to stand — providing more money for homeless services — and people landing at SFO on Wednesday were pretty freaked out by the orange sky.
The once slow-growing Dolan Fire in Monterey County is now nearly 100,000 acres, Ritual Coffee Roasters shuttered its Castro location over the long weekend, and the orange skies that continue coloring the Bay Area are likely to stick around until at least Friday.
Revelations coming from on-the-record interviews that Trump (bafflingly) did with veteran journalist Bob Woodward for his forthcoming book 'Rage' have provided insight into the president's disgustingly flawed approach to the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
